i get in close, notice now the fine-print
Th'art a scholar;
let us therefore eat and drink.
Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night, huh.
huh because it's Falstaff who cajoled me thru my rumspringa, led us tripping lustily from strip bar to burger joint, from strip joint to rub parlour, up & down Yonge Street.
my Orson hale & corpulent! with me an errant Prince of the Academy!
my Guide to mid-life riotry—o Guru of my late-nite, late-in-life release from Beta piety!
Sir Fatso means, in standard-form:
Freshmen love to party;
thou art a Freshman;
let us therefore party!
yet the joke of it’s a self-referring argument, a subtlety:
thou art a Scholar;
Scholars all are partial to the Syllogism, thus:
hereby into riotry, i'm talking us!
the play is a Dismissal rite
The Merry Wives of Windsor—the only play the Bard seems contemptuous of while writing, argues Harold Bloom in Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. a pseudo-Falstaff, lame in wit, is pummelled by his author here, subjected to [a quote re the beatings & indignities].
the play is a Dismissal rite, where author disavows his Fat Knight—a Writer’s treachery!
Will is like Harry in the Henriad, thus: when done with Falstaff, cuts him!
Will is like Harry, he ascends to English King—he’s our Legislating Poet, in the reign of a Millennium!
yet who was his Falstaff, was his real-life Tutor whom he drops, once ascendant?
a prior Big Man of the canon—maybe Chaucer?
or a Poet on the scene—a Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser?
or, more the size of it: the Canon in toto—the Corpus whom he hoovers till aloft in solo Eminence, soaring as his own main influence.
In his ambit, in his orbit:
Witte the weight that keeps me round but
Will i am and won't be bound to any fat Orson!
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
maybe theirs auxiliated different, their cannot, but there's something here i'm missing, cuz it bothers me—
right as Richard should, the arch Provocateur!
plus the knocky kuh's, it’s a nice alliteration: the two cans & crown, so an ear picks out a code of his ambition, terse & cold, listen:
can / can / crown